Comparison of clastic wedge provenance in the Appalachian foreland using U/Pb ages of detrital zircons

Tectonics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 151-160

  Gray, Mary Beth ^a   Zeitler, Peter K ^b  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASTIC WEDGE; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; PENNSYLVANIAN; SILURIAN; TACONIC OROGENY; URANIUM/LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; SHELLFISH; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

APPALACHIAN; APPALACHIAN BASIN; DETRITAL ZIRCON; EARLY PALEOZOIC; MULTI-CYCLE; PENNSYLVANIANS; PRECAMBRIAN; SENSITIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE;

QUARTZ;

EID: 0030814352     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96TC02911     Document Type: Review

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